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[–] 21 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Why don't you just call NFL foot ball, soccer? No one else wants to use the name soccer so it's sort of free.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Well you see, Americans called the game with goalies "soccer" because that's what the British called it back when we were crown colonies, so when we invented the game with linebackers, we called that "football." then everyone else heard our word and decided to change the game with goalies' name to "football." So as usual, America continues to be correct, and the rest of the world is bound and determined to fuck it up.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    So as usual, America continues to be correct

    Perhaps you've momentarily forgotten about USA's metric vs imperial nonsense

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is wrong. Soccer was (by Americans) called Soccer after the word 'association -> assoc -> soccer' because back then it was called 'Association Football' Football is an umbrella term for sports which was not mounted (by foot) and used a ball so 'by foot with ball -> football' So after that to call American Football, Football, is by definition not wrong but misleading for most parts of the world. More precise would be 'American Rugby' since American Football is a derivative of Rugby much more so then of European Football.

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